Botero Supper Club

Steak and Shake

Small Plates and Loud Noises at Encore

Salad fork goes on the outside. Napkin should be folded lengthwise on your lap.

And if you must get up to start a conga line in the middle of a meal, remember to excuse yourself from the
table first.

Welcome to Botero Supper Club, a new dinner party intent on bridging the gap between light dinner
and Vegas-style nightclubbery, now open at Encore.

The scene here: still that of an art gallery jamboree packed inside a steakhouse—walls lined with Colombian figurative
artist Fernando Botero’s melting tiger tamers, upside-down liquor display cases hanging from the ceiling.
The only noticeable change: a pair of new, late-night menus and a makeshift DJ booth posted up by the
kitchen.

Be seated with that Cirque du Soleil elephant whisperer you’ve been entertaining under the giant statue of
a naked woman at the center of the room. Immediately, you’ll be hit with live DJ beats (see: Steve Aoki
spinning by the kitchen), and slapped with menus of nightclubby cocktails and high-protein nibble fare
(it’s a well-known fact that halibut-ginger crudo goes better on the dance floor than, say, a porterhouse
for two).

The result: loose limbs for XS, the Persian-emperor-inspired sweat circus next door.

Something about ordering raw fish at a steakhouse just puts you in a risk-taking mood.